172 JOHN GOODYER 



Curled Parsley. 

 Apium crispum. 17 Feb. 1622 



At Idsworth, 17 Feb. 1622. — J/S. f. 51 v. 



[Hill in 1574 printed the following prescription for Parsley. 

 ' If you will have the leaves of the Parcely grow crisped, then before 

 the sowing stufife a tennis ball with the seedes, & beat the same wel 

 against the ground, wherby the seedes may so be a little brused, and 

 then sowe them in the ground, or when the Parcelye is well come up 

 go over the bed with a waighty roller, whereby it may so presse the 

 leaves downe, or els treade the same downe with thy feete." Th. Hill, 

 Arte of Gardening.] 



Calamagrostis Epigejos Roth. 

 Calamagrostis. 27 Apr. 1622 



This sedge sendeth forth many 3 cornered straked stalkes, about 

 2 foot high, beareinge at ye toppe a spike or eare about 3 }-nches 

 longe devided into 12 or 13 lesser scaly eares, and those againe into 

 smaller, the whole spike not spreadinge abroad, but growinge neare 

 together, so that the thicknes is not above an ynch, of a brownish 

 color before the flowers come forth, which appearinge are nothinge 

 but an infinite many of small dustie things like cheives, at ye first 

 opening whitish afterwards yealowe like ye flowers of other grasses. 



[The seed is small contayned in chafiie scales, of a brownish 

 chestnutt color, neare 3 cornered & broad belowe and sharpe 

 pointed without any manifest tast. 8 Julii 1622.] 



The leaves are narrowe about 1 or 3 foot longe growinge 

 ymediatelie from ye root, as it were 3 cornered, and very rough 

 espetially if you slide your fingers from their topps downewards, 

 and so sharpe that they cutt one's fingers even as a knife, as doth 

 also y*-' stalk ; which usually is without leaves, yet sometimes hath 

 one very small one growinge close belowe ye spike, neare a foot 

 longe. The rootes are infinite of the bignes of ye rootes oi gramen 

 caninum (couch gras) or bigger of a reddish color without, closely 

 mattinge together, and gathering the mudd or dirt amongst them . 

 Growinge dovvneright of a greate lenght, and makinge a greate 

 stronge tuft, no herbe or gras like it, for they are so stifle & 

 stronge, that growinge in ye middest of water, a man may goe 

 on them & steppe from tuft to tuft, ye water & mud beinge of 

 a good depth betwixt them. — MS. f. 121. 



O a k. Qiierciis robur. 

 Cachrys quercus. 2.S Apr. 1620 & 9 May 1622 



The Cachryes ' are conceived eyther in a budd with the leaves, o r 



' The term cachrys is one that appears to Iiave been used for the you ng cones 



